Lynda I agree with Hector and would only add that, next to disease, the
anxiety around this particular infection is often the HepC patient's worst enemy. Anxiety can cause people to not be able to think straight, to act out of panic or fail to act when all systems say "go", to make poor provider decisions and/or treatment decisions, to become forgetful (eg. forgetting what we have already read about, forgetting to take meds timely), to not notice material in their readings, etc.